JL writes: 5. For the fellow geezers who can even remember so far back, was there ever the slightest doubt in your mind that these uses of "pussy" had *nothing whatever* to with little kitty cats? ~~~~~~~~~~ My WWII vet husband (b. 1925) has no doubt at all about the common use of "pussy" in full-blown female sexual connotation at least as early as 1940. A. Murie